Re: “Crafted morality at Hobby Lobby,” (Start the Presses, July 5). I am personally incensed by the vitriol expressed by those objecting to Hobby Lobby and the recent court decision, particularly the exaggerated commentary by Dan Evans. In...

Merci beaucoup, Burbank!
Call me naïve (I only studied French for a year), but I have a hard time understanding why the Burbank City Council last month approved a private school — Lycee International de Los Angeles — using the city's...

More than two years after the collapse of Lehman Bros., Burbank is still pining for the $10 million it lost in the deal.
Following Lehman’s declaration of bankruptcy in September 2008, Burbank filed a lawsuit alleging top executives of the...

The co-owner of an Italian restaurant that’s been in Glendale for 30 years has taken a unique approach to gauging the interest of anyone interested in buying her share of the business. She’s placed an ad on Craigslist.
The listing, posted...

After an extensive, two-year renovation, the Brand Library & Art Center reopened with a celebrity gala. Close to 150 supporters got a first look at the brand new library and art center's facelift.
Last Saturday, handsome men, with or without black ties, and their ladies who strolled the gallery also had the chance to be the first to view the inaugural exhibition of mixed-work pieces from contemporary artists.
In 1998, members of the Glendale City Council approved the multimillion dollar funding for...

Glendale and Burbank residents can expect to see their gas bills increase by up to $2 per month through 2017 as the Southern California Gas Co. rolls out a $1-billion digital upgrade for meters serving 6 million customers.
“Data collection units” that look like 25- to 45-foot-tall light poles will also set up throughout the cities. About 18 are slated for Glendale — most of which will be in the northern part of the city — and seven may come to Burbank, according to the utility....

In Glendale, utility workers found their paychecks a little smaller last week — the price of the inability of their union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 18, to negotiate an initial contract two years after winning the right to represent them.
Down the road, Pasadena Water and Power workers are all steamed up over the city's resistance to giving in to their demands on terms for a new contract that would move them closer to matching the sweetheart deal enjoyed by their...

For Scott Ochoa, it was a year to remember given the 41-year-old city manager's leap from a small suburban town to Glendale, a city five times larger and far more complex.
And he had big shoes to fill as well, with longtime City Manager Jim Starbird retiring and everyone in town, at least those paying attention, and everyone on staff — all of them paying very close attention — to the new boss in town.
“We hit the ground running and it was bang, two days in and redevelopment was done,&...

A Dallas, Texas-based investment firm has purchased the Glendale Marketplace on Brand Boulevard, seeing major potential in the retail plaza that is home to stores and restaurants including HomeGoods, Outback Steakhouse, Old Navy and the four-screen Galaxy Theatres.
Cypress Equities announced the sale on Monday, though the sale closed on Friday. The cost of the acquisition was not disclosed.
Todd Minnis, managing partner of the real estate investment management division of Cypress, said Tuesday that...

Christopher McWhorter is one face of the state budget crisis, as state Sen. Carol Liu (D-Glendale) learned Thursday.
McWhorter, 37, is bedridden because of muscular dystrophy. Sixteen hours a week, workers paid through the California Department of Health Services provide care and monitor the oxygen tanks and IV drip by his bed.
But the company that provides McWhorter's aides hasn't been paid since mid-August. The owner said her business is in jeopardy because of what has become a nearly three-month...